We can come up with a lot of reasons for why bad things happen: we live in a fallen, broken world full of fallen, broken people just like us, making fallen, broken decisions. And while Christ can redraw any picture — the fact remains, we all go through stuff; we all live with the knowledge of good and evil. We may know the broad why, but we rarely know the specific why: "Why ME? Why NOW? Why like this?" In Acts 27, it must have seemed like things were finally beginning to turn around for the Apostle Paul: he's permitted to have some companions travel with him, he receives great favor and kindness from the Roman centurion who’s been assigned to get him to Rome, and he and the ship he's aboard arrive safely at Fair Havens, a safe place to winter. And yet, just like us at times, Paul was still a captive of the choices of others, those who wanted to leave “safe haven” and continue their vain and volatile voyage. We can only imagine what Paul and his companions were feeling as the disaster of that decision began to unfold. But rather than park in his anger or linger in his loss, Paul speaks a word, a sustaining sentence, in the midst of the storm!